Men's Basketball Coaching Staff

Kerry Prather...Head Coach
Email: kprather@franklincollege.edu

Kerry Prather serves as Franklin College's director of athletics and head men's basketball coach. He joined the Franklin College staff in 1982 as the assistant basketball coach and was promoted to the head coaching position the following year. In addition to his coaching responsibilities, Prather has held administrative positions as assistant dean of students, associate director of admissions, acting vice president for enrollment management and acting vice president for administration.

Prather holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana University. In 1999, he was named an associate alumnus of Franklin College. Prather was honored as the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference's Coach of the Year after guiding the Grizzlies to league championships in 1989 and 1992 and a runner-up finish in 1998. He coached the Grizzlies to an NAIA District 21 championship and No. 3 seed in the NAIA national tournament in Texas in 1991-92. Franklin finished in the Elite Eight that year.

In 1998-99, he guided Franklin to its first (renamed) Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament championship, which earned his team an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championships tournament. Making its second consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, the Grizzlies reached the Sweet 16 in 1999.

In 1999-2000, he guided Franklin to regular season and tournament titles in the Heartland Conference, and the program's third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. In 2001-02, he coached the Grizzlies to their third HCAC tournament title in four seasons and their fourth NCAA tournament berth in five years. Prather guided Franklin to its fourth conference regular season championship in 2006-07. The Grizzlies then won their fourth conference tournament crown, earning its fifth appearance in the NCAA playoffs, in 2007-08 and then captured their fifth regular season title in 2009-10 under Prather.

Heading into the 2009-10 campaign, the Grizzlies have a combined record of 214-107 in the past 12 seasons, including a 122-44 mark in Franklin's Spurlock Center gymnasium during that period. Franklin was first among all NCAA Division III schools in team three-point field goal percentage in 1997-98 and 1999-2000, tops in overall field goal shooting in 1999-2000 and 2008-09, and first in team free throw accuracy in 2000-01. Prather served on the NCAA men's basketball committee for the Midwest Region.

Prather has coached seven recipients of the conference Player of the Year award -- Mike Gibbs, Scott Roberts, John Holden, Jason Sibley, Paul Buening and Nick Kane, including one repeat selection (Sibley), plus two All-America players (Holden and Sibley), including one repeat honoree (Sibley). Moreover, he has coached Dave Dunkle, who was selected to the GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America Team and was awarded the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 1993-94.

With 425 victories, Prather is Franklin's winningest men's basketball coach. Moreover, his teams have combined for a 169-109 mark in Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference and Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season contests since 1988. Prather and his wife, Cindy, who teaches in the education department at Franklin College, have two children, Katie and Robbie.

COACH PRATHER'S TENURE
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
ICAC	1988-89
ICAC	1991-92
HCAC	1999-00
HCAC	2006-07
HCAC	2008-09
CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIPS
HCAC	1998-99
HCAC	1999-00
HCAC	2001-02
HCAC	2007-08
CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT RUNNERS-UP
ICAC	1997-98
HCAC	2003-04
HCAC	2004-05
HCAC	2005-06
HCAC	2008-09
NATIONAL POST-SEASON TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
NAIA Division II	1991-92
NCAA Division III	1997-98
NCAA Division III	1998-99
NCAA Division III	1999-00
NCAA Division III	2001-02
NCAA Division III	2007-08
COACH OF THE YEAR
ICAC	1988-89
ICAC	1991-92
HCAC	1997-98
LEADING THE NATION
3-pt Field Goal Pct	1997-98
3-pt Field Goal Pct	1999-00
Field Goal Pct	1999-00
Free Throw Pct	2000-01
Field Goal Pct.	2008-09

Assistant Coaches

Jarrod Brett
Email: jbrett@franklincollege.edu

Assistant Coach Jarrod Brett is a 1998 Franklin graduate whose playing career as a Grizzly included all-conference honors his senior year and academic all-conference honors for three years. He was named the Grizzlies’ team MVP in 1996-97 In 1997-98, He helped lead the Grizzlies to a 23-6 record and their first NCAA national tournament appearance. Franklin won a first-round game at Ripon College, which had won 21 consecutive games at that point, before losing the second-round game in overtime to defending national champion Illinois Wesleyan University. He also tied the FC single-season record for three-point field goals made (72) that season. Brett was the recipient of the Goaltenders “Clutch” Award and the Branigin Award for Mental Attitude. After graduation, he served four years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of captain. During the 2002-03 season, he served as a volunteer assistant to his father, Steve Brett, the head coach at Loogootee High School. During his coaching tenure at Franklin, Brett earned his master’s degree from Indiana University in 2007. He and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Franklin.

Fonso White
Email: fwhite@franklincollege.edu

Assistant Coach Fonso White joined the coaching staff prior to the 2008-09 season. He arrived at Franklin College with 10 years of coaching experience at the high school level. White previously coached at Pike and Park Tudor in Indianapolis and was a head coach in the Down Under Hoops Classic in Queensland, Australia. A graduate of Caldwell County High School in Princeton, Ky., he has previously attended IUPUI. White is presently taking courses at Franklin, aspiring to be a social studies teacher and coach at the secondary education level.


Matt Hall
Email: mhall@franklincollege.edu

Volunteer Assistant Coach Matt Hall is now in his third season on the FC coaching staff. He is a 1997 graduate of Earlham College, where he played basketball four years and was a MVP and all-conference honoree. He has previously coached at Earlham, Richmond and Franklin high schools and Custer Baker Middle School. Hall, who’s employed as student support technology administrator and lecturer of educational technology in Franklin College’s information technology department, resides in Franklin.